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Hermanito.

Yeah.

What's up bro? Thanks for having me.

How you doing? How you doing?

I'm doing good man.

Having fun out here in Brooklyn today.

Manny, one of the things that I want to talk to you about

and as I was doing my research with you

and even now as we've been talking,

you speak a lot about your being a father.

Yeah.

Talk to me.

I'm a father of three boys

and I know that that's one of my biggest title.

Yeah.

Talk to me a little bit about that.

You know,

I feel like a lot of people say that,

you know,

they're a parent first

and they're a dad first,

but you rarely meet like people that really mean it.

And to me, my son is like my world from everything.

You know, he makes me the happiest.

He brings me the most joy

and it's also the most challenging thing too, if you like be honest.

Like raising a boy nowadays, it's always hard

because you want him to be, you know, sensitive, tough,

artistic, hard-working,

but it's hard to have that balance, right?

Because the world is always going to put something on him.

But to me,

what I find the most like what's worked for me

just kind of being honest with him,

telling him how,

you know,

how I've seen the world

and what could benefit him.

But hey,

it's your choice.

Like you have to make this decision and

you have to live with

it.

And sometimes they'll come and tell me, you know,

dad, this happened at school today

or this happened at school today

and it like you want to go and rage, right?

You want to go fight his battles for him

and it's the hardest thing to be like,

ok pop,

this is what you might have to do and this could help

or this could help and then let him make his choice.

And like the days when he comes back and is like,

hey, I tried this thing and you know, it kind of worked and like,

it makes you the happiest, right?

It's like my most proud feeling besides

before acting before anything,

like he makes me the most proud.

One of the things that I've heard

is I know that you love boxing.

Yeah,

and you mentioned that you want him to know boxing to be

to be confident , talk to me a little bit about it.

So I think that every dude has this like moments where they like,

they try like want to be tougher than what they actually are

and like you walk into a party and you're like,

boxing takes away all of that, man

If you go to a boxing gym,

they're the nicest,

kind of calmest people

and i want him to have that and I

and I always told my wife,

I want him to know how to fight so he

so hecan remain like the

like the sensitive kid that he is

so he can like so the world doesn't take that away from him

because like when most people try to act tough and like,

you know,

put on this like over masculine shit is because of their insecurities,

right?

But if you know how to fight,

you can be sensitive.

You can be funny.

You can be anything you want to be

because nobody is going to message you

and ifsomething does happen,

you know how to handle yourself.

Yeah, and that's why I got always reiterate

likeI hate violence bro.

like I love boxing,

but I hate punching people

and always tell people like this comes you down to the point

where you don't have to fight.

So like learning martial art,

whether it's jitsu boxing something

and it benefits your child in such great ways.

So yeah,I tell every parent that so you're the

so you, the character you play.

Uh-huh.

How did you tap into that?

Yeah, because

I just wanted to know

Right because,

you know what I did bro.

Honestly,

I just mimicked

everybody I saw growing up.

So like, you know around my way.

I had like the dudes that were very

much like gangster drugs,

whatever,

but like the kind that's like that will throw a football around you

or be like yo go go inside man.

So she's about to happen.

And I always like like their stillness and their calmness

and there's this one dude in particular that kind of just had this like scariness

and he'd have to do anything.

They had like loud dudes and like when I was first working on the audition.

I was like tapping into that and it wasn't working and then

and then I just like did this still thing

and I was like, oh shit.

I could be scary like if I'm quiet,

that's cool too.

And it just kind of gave me like a power.

So I just rolled with that.

This really there.

Yeah,

my brother, i appreciate you

i love you -yeah man

Yeah,

my friend is like your biggest.

Oh,

we sure sure.

Yeah,

Skyla Skyla Skyla Skyla Skyla.

Say hi Skyla.

Say hi.

I got to do this thing or

I'm gonna make it quick.

No,

it's okay.

Hi.

Hi.

Nice to meet you.

Hi.

God bless y'all.

And sure.

Yeah,

I do photography as well.

Okay.

You were like,

would you be

interested in working on this?

I'm not really needle right now,

but I appreciate you though.

I mean,

we're just doing this

interview that he's working on.

I appreciate you though.

Yeah.

Yeah,

for sure.

But he said he photography.

Oh,

yeah,

your video too.

So yeah,

I'm working on that.

Yeah,

trying to get like a better camera.

But sure,

you videography as well.

Yeah,

how much of me let me have Instagram.

Okay,

follow in chain.